Blood Culture Managed Service Contract Public Health Wales NHS Trust

Descriptions

Public Health Wales has a network of microbiology laboratories across Wales which provide diagnostic microbiology services to Health Boards as well as surveillance activities for the protection of Public Health. Laboratories within the Public Health Wales network include:In Abertawe Bro Morgannwg UHB; ABM (Swansea and Bridgend sites), In Betsi Cadwaladr HB; BCHB (Bangor and Rhyl, and Wrexham sites) In Cardiff and Vale UHB; Cardiff and Llandough sites In Hywel Dda HB, Carmarthen and Aberystwyth, with discussions underway to incorporate Withybush. There is a strategic vision that all Microbiology laboratories in Wales should be managed by Public Health Wales. With this in mind it is important that any agreement can be extended to include those sites that are currently not managed by Public Health Wales.All microbiology laboratories in Wales currently process blood culture samples and details of numbers by site are provided separately. It must be noted that Microbiology service provision in Wales is becoming regionalised and that service configuration will change as the models of regional service delivery are developed further. North Wales is further ahead in centralising the majority of Microbiology services on a single site at Glan Clwyd (Rhyl).Public Health Wales are keen to maximise the benefits of a managed service contract to provide high quality blood culture services that reduces risk (both financial and in specimen processing) and maximises efficiency.